Saturday, May 31, 2003
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21st CENTURY SUBURBS? A computer-generated drawing of Resolution: 4 Architecture's Dwell Home, which according to preliminary estimates can be built in a factory for $200,000.
per New York Times per MetaFilter
Opposition about the media conglomeration that will continue as a result of Monday's FCC changes in this must-read WaPo article, Monopoly or Democracy? written by Ted Turner per IP
On Monday the Federal Communications Commission is expected to adopt dramatic rule changes that will extend the market dominance of the five media corporations that control most of what Americans read, see and hear. I am a major shareholder in the largest of those five corporations, yet -- speaking only for myself, and not for AOL Time Warner -- I oppose these rules. They will stifle debate, inhibit new ideas and shut out smaller businesses trying to compete...
Why should the country care? When you lose small businesses, you lose big ideas. People who own their own businesses are their own bosses. They are independent thinkers. They know they can't compete by imitating the big guys; they have to innovate. So they are less obsessed with earnings than they are with ideas. They're willing to take risks.... continued
Justin saw Vonnegut speak and I liked this part -- Divorce, after admitting his own, is "you are not enough people - I know too much about you. I know how you snore, how you eat, how you read the paper." We need more people in our lives.
Thursday, May 29, 2003
I've been giving myself a crash course in prosumer digital still cameras in the event I decide to rush-buy one before next Thursday. Currently trying to decide between the Fuji S602 (pictured) and the Canon G3.
I think it all comes down to who you hang out with- Here are some fantasmic photo challenges by Fuji heads; this one is my favorite.
5/31/03 update -- I just bought the G3, you'll see why soon
Nullsoft's* NSV format looks interesting, if only because it comes from Nullsoft.... NSV is a new video format. It is designed to be easily streamed, support any audio and video codec, and be usable on nearly any platform.
I'm sure you've heard of WinAmp. Nullsoft makes that. But do you remember their buyout? Yeah, good god. Along with spinner.com, Nullsoft was swallowed up by AOL in June of '99 for $300 million. I think their CEO, Justin Frankel, was hardly 21 years old at the time. But with all that newfound job security, did they sell out? Hell no. Nullsoft rocks for life.
I'm sure you've heard of WinAmp. Nullsoft makes that. But do you remember their buyout? Yeah, good god. Along with spinner.com, Nullsoft was swallowed up by AOL in June of '99 for $300 million. I think their CEO, Justin Frankel, was hardly 21 years old at the time. But with all that newfound job security, did they sell out? Hell no. Nullsoft rocks for life.
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
Tuesday, May 27, 2003
The trendy and the elite in India's wealthy western state of Gujarat, bored with mundane drugs, are turning to the sting of a scorpion to get their kicks, a press report said on Wednesday from cooltech.iafrica.com
Monday, May 26, 2003
I really like the idea of a personals site that would use an interface similar to this.... pixelpocket.com | FACElink
Sunday, May 25, 2003
The 27 antennas, their signals combined and strengthened by computer,
can perform as one giant instrument ---
Saturday, May 24, 2003
Friday, May 23, 2003
Reason magazine -- June 2001, City Views
Urban studies legend Jane Jacobs on gentrification, the New Urbanism, and her legacy.
Urban studies legend Jane Jacobs on gentrification, the New Urbanism, and her legacy.
Thursday, May 22, 2003
Flight reservations: 05 Jun Korean Air Flight:KE036 From: William B Hartsfield (ATL), Atlanta, GA, USA To: Incheon Intl (ICN), Seoul, Korea Republic Of Departing: 13:30 Arriving: 17:15 Status: Confirmed 06 Jun Korean Air Flight:KE653 From: Incheon Intl (ICN), Seoul, Korea Republic Of To: Bangkok Int'l (BKK), Bangkok, Thailand Departing: 20:15 Arriving: 23:45 Status: Confirmed Flight reservations: 05 Aug Korean Air Flight:KE654 From: Bangkok Int'l (BKK), Bangkok, Thailand To: Incheon Intl (ICN), Seoul, Korea Republic Of Departing: 01:20 Arriving: 08:45 Status: Confirmed 05 Aug Korean Air Flight:KE035 From: Incheon Intl (ICN), Seoul, Korea Republic Of To: William B Hartsfield (ATL), Atlanta, GA, USA Departing: 10:40 Arriving: 11:30 Status: Confirmed
Wednesday, May 21, 2003
The Earthwatch Institute offers some pretty deck travel packages that combine vacation with edu-cation. Take a two week trip and help study the coral reefs of Mauritus, the desertification problem within Mongolia, or the polar bears of Manitoba.
That last one has you travelling for the purpose of "investigating the role of play and the impact of ecotourism on the social lives of male polar bears." Ironic, much?
I just received confirmation that my summer internship in downtown Bangkok is go, at least for 30 days (starting early June).
Thinking about going to Bonnaroo this summer? You totally should have gone last year, because it just won't be the same in 2003. All the cool kids are going to the Field Day Music Festival June 7-8, 2003 in Long Island. Who else is going? Oh, you know... Just Radiohead, Beck, Beastie Boys, Sigur Ros, Blur, Thievery Corporation, The Roots, Elliot Smith, Bright Eyes, etc.
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
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Friday, May 16, 2003
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
There's a company that I'm really into right now, and that company is Audible. I just made a purchase on their website, whereupon they got $14 off my AmEx and I downloaded 122MB of data from their servers. The whole experience was so wonderfully painless that I'm almost positive this is pretty damn close to what the future is like. At least for audio books. With a four hour drive on tomorrow's agenda, and an equal number of hours scheduled for Friday's return, I hope you can understand how happy I am to have purchased and successfully burned an audio version of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation. Factoring in all the data security and ready-for-mobileness that the Audible software (screenshot) has been praised for, I don't think the process could have been much easier: I picked out a book I wanted to hear during my drive, put in my credit card number, and then my CD-ROM pops open asking for a blank CD (1 of 8). Their stock (ADBL.OB) is priced at $.51, which gives Audible a market value of around $16 million. Any takers? If I had a couple of tequillas in me and could remember my eTrade password.... Downside: Only $2 million in cash left, and even with 229,000 customers at $14.95/month, they still lost $765,000 last quarter.
Cuando suenan los superheroes is among finalists
from the online flash film festival per Metafilter
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
Servants Heart - The Long Road From Sudan to America Two days before, they had encountered their first light switch and tried their first set of stairs.
Monday, May 12, 2003
Justin from links.net wrote a nice piece on the popularity of mobile home pages in Japan- TheFeature :: It's All About The Mobile Internet College students and IM addicts alike are familiar with the U.S. equivalent of mobile home pages- AIM profiles.
Note to self, read this- The Great San Francisco Bubble / Life in America's last great progressive cocoon, as conservatives snicker and pule
Thursday, May 08, 2003
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